digiKam is an advanced digital photo management application for KDE, which makes importing and organizing digital photos a "snap". The photos can be organized in albums which can be sorted chronologically, by directory layout or by custom collections.

Tired of the directory constraints? Don’t worry, digiKam also provides tagging functionality. You tag your images which can be spread out across multiple folders and digiKam provides fast and intuitive ways to browse these tagged images. You can also add comments and rating to your images. digiKam makes use of a fast and robust database to store these meta-informations which makes adding and editing of comments and tags very reliable.

digiKam makes use of KIPI plugins for lots of added functionality. KIPI (KDE Image Plugin Interface) is an initiative to create a common plugin infrastructure for digiKam, KPhotoAlbum, Showimg, and GwenView. Its aim is to allow development of image plugins which can be shared among KDE graphical applications.

An easy to use interface is provided that enables you to connect to your camera and preview, download and/or delete your images. digiKam includes too an image editor for image corrections and manipulations whitch can be extended by plugins.

Another tool, which most artists and photographers will be familiar with, is a Light Table. This tool assists artists and photographers with reviewing their work ensuring only the highest quality. A light table will show the artist their imperfections in which they can go and touch up. Well in digiKam, the light table function provides the user a similar experience. You can import a photo, drag it onto the light table, and touch up only the areas that need it.

The digiKam Image Editor has its own plugin subsystem with some common tools e.g. red eye correction or Gamma correction. Additional plugins are provided with the main application to process advanced corrections on image like color management, noise reduction, or special effects. digiKam Image Editor support all camera RAW file formats, 16 bits color depth, Exif/Makernote/IPTC/GPS metadata, Color management, tagging/rating/comments pictures, etc.

A lots of search tools are also available to be able to find specific photo on whole collection : Time line, Calendar, Advanced Search using multiple and complex database queries (tags, rating, keywords, date,
etc...)

A stand-alone image editor version named Showfoto is also available. It runs without digiKam images database support, but provides all Image Editor plugins.

Caution: I have just done that and opened the program, looks fine, but basically not tested.

Re: packages for intrepid i386

Hi. Could you please tell me the method of creating digikam deb package? I installed it using cmake && make && make install without any problems, but I would like to know how to create deb package using dh_make and dpkg-buildpackage, so that I can remove it from my system easily in the future.

Re: Re: packages for intrepid i386

Well, in this particular case I had to get the sources from the debian experimental first, so I could create a source directory with a debian/ directory and files inside. I hate creating those myself, though there are tutorials on making debian files on the internet.

So, first you have to download the three files: packagename_and_version.orig.tar.gz , packagename_and_version.dsc , packagename_and_version.diff.gz to one directory

Second, you have to unpack the sources:

dpkg-source -x packagename_and_version.dsc

you will get a valid source directory with debian/ subdirectory, which includes all the necessary information for making of a deb package including all the patches.

then enter the directory
cd packagename_and_version
and then issue command

dpkg-buildpackage -rfakeroot -uc -b

and, in case you have all build dependencies (if not, the program will likely complain and tell you) you will get a package right by the directory where the source archives were.

Compiled fine but doesnt work

Hi

I compiled the latest version and all went fine - no error messages. It started up, did the database thing, selecting the directory with my images in it. All works fine, except it doesnt show any image at all. I can select the subdirectory in the left tree in the main window but no thumbnails show up in the right window. I cant select anything.

How do you like Plasma 5? The best KDE Desktop ever. Definitely a nice improvement. Not decided yet. Haven't tried it yet. I do not like some of the changes. KDE is taking the wrong way. I am still sticking with KDE 3.5. I have no opinion, but wanted to vote anyway.

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